NSW: Industry Hails Planning Overhaul
Announcement posted by DesignBuild Source 17 Jul 2012
A complete overhaul of the planning and approval system in New South Wales has won praise from the state’s property development and construction industry.
Chris Johnson, chief executive officer of the Urban Taskforce, a property development industry group, says a new green paper released last week by New South Wales Planning and Infrastructure Minister Brad Hazzard delivers on each of the 10 key ideas the group listed in its submission for better planning in the state.
“We congratulate the government and Minister Hazzard in particular, for the clarity and appropriateness of the 23 key proposals,” Johnson says.
Titled A New Planning System for New South Wales, the paper sets out a number of proposals to reform the planning and approval system in the state.
It proposes 23 ‘transformative changes’ designed to move from a heavily regulated and prescriptive system to one which is simpler, more transparent, fairer and more in line with strategic planning objectives.